What Motivated you to Download the SAS University Edition?

Now that you have downloaded the free SAS University Edition, please tell us what you think and what motivated you to download the software? What types of research, projects, data analysis, etc. are you performing with the SAS University Edition Software? We would love to hear from you!

Re: What Motivated you to Download the SAS University Edition?

I worked with Base SAS macros , SAS Di and SAS EG when I was working with an organization. Currently I am pursuing my higher education but I don't want to lost touch with SAS . And also SAS is very niche skill , having knowledge on this technology will give me upper hand in my professional career.

Re: What Motivated you to Download the SAS University Edition?

This helps to break the impossible career deadlock of some industries: you don't get hired unless you know SAS programming, but as an individual, getting a SAS license for learning SAS programming is not a practical proposition.

Sadly, is very restricted in comparison to SAS OnDemand for Academics (that I used with Coursera), but it is a step in the right direction and I appreciate it.

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Our institute do have SAS license and is available on the campus network. But students are not able utilize this in the best possible manner as they stay away from campus. I am trying the university edition to check if this will be useful to them.

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I want to learn about SAS and develop analytical and statistical skills oriented to risk and fraud topics. I installed the VMware player and configure SAS University Edition. But I need some guide to begin to use the software and begin the training.

For coding the help approach is different as it down by tasks and snippets (templates) and auto-complete when you are typing in the source area.The first thing is finding your way with code (source) result (output) and logs. A very classic 3-fold separation.

Re: What Motivated you to Download the SAS University Edition?

I downloaded it to test it to see whether it will work for the students in my SAS programming class. They currently have access to SAS in various labs on campus, in a virtual lab environment, and they can purchase a license for their own computer for $25. A free option is very appealing.

However, the user interface looks absolutely nothing like either the regular SAS windowing environment (which we use) or SAS Enterprise Guide. I'm using Programming I and Programming II from SAS Institute and I don't see an easy way of making the instructions and information in those course fit this environment.

It's also slow. The program that I tried that accesses data in an xls worksheet (which works fine in SAS 9.4) throws an error message in UE even though I've changed the folder reference to match the folder reference that works to access a SAS data set used by another part of the program.

For people who don't have access to SAS, this is probably a great opportunity and I appreciate SAS making it available. For those of us who have reasonable access to regular SAS, it may not be a particularly enticing choice.